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The World We (Re)Build: An Ethnography of the Future
Author(s) -
Willow Anna J.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1111/anhu.12309
Subject(s) - futures contract , ethnography , sociology , task (project management) , process (computing) , epistemology , engineering ethics , anthropology , computer science , engineering , philosophy , business , systems engineering , finance , operating system
Summary This essay directs the theoretical energy of the emerging anthropology of the future genre toward the essential task of generating new anthropological prospects for making positive world contributions. Embracing visioning as a promising ethnographic technique, I develop an ethnography of the future drawn from central Ohio Transition participants’ prefigurative actions and descriptions of desirable futures. I suggest that temporal imaginings have very real effects on the world we ultimately (re)build and outline anthropology’s roles in the future‐making process.